Social Media Ideas for Linguistic Discoveries

Lost Medieval Bibliotheca Palatina Manuscript Rediscovered In University Library

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  A recent discovery at Heidelberg University Library has brought renewed attention to a medieval manuscript. The fifteenth-century codex, purchased...

Scientists Discover Ancient “Language Switches” Hidden in Human DNA

Researchers have identified tiny genetic “switches” that appear to play a surprisingly large role in human language ability. Researchers at University of Iowa Health Care have iden...

What Is the Origin Story of Language? Our Ancient Ancestors May Have Developed Communication Rapidly

Learn more about the origins of language, and how our ancient ancestors may have developed it in a sudden jump rather than over time. 

1 ‘grammar engine’ powers bilingualism in the brain

"Our research suggests that brains have a single grammatical engine that fuels all of the languages we speak..."

Where did language come from? Nobody really knows, but the theories are fascinating

In 1866, the topic became so controversial that the Société de Linguistique de Paris banned discussions about language origins altogether.

What Slips of the Tongue Reveal About the Mind

Those awkward slips of the tongue are not just mistakes. They are clues to the hidden machinery of speech production.

Scientists Challenge a 70-Year-Old Theory of Language With a Surprising Discovery

A new study challenges the widely accepted idea that word meanings are organized around emotion. After analyzing billions of words, scientists found that language may be shaped by...

Disclosure Day and interspecies communication—alien language isn’t just weird noises

A linguist lays out what communicating with aliens could actually involve—and what that tells us about human language

Thinking in 3 languages

The biggest lesson I have learnt about language did not come from my Korean classroom. It came while reading an English essay written by my Korean student. Until recently, I assume...

Brain Study Overturns Long-Held Beliefs About How Humans Learn Speech

Scientists have discovered that the brain’s sensory systems play a much larger role in speech learning than previously believed. New research suggests that learning to speak a new...

AI Proves Language Evolves for Learnability

A new study using AI proves that language actively evolves over generations to become structured because it makes learning easier.

The brain’s language network is more extensive than previously thought

A new study reveals that parts of the brain located far from the canonical language-processing centers are also involved in language comprehension.

The linguist’s case for cartoons

When I started learning a third language, it was harder than I expected. There was no one to speak with the way I do in English and Arabic, and almost no free media to stumble acro...

Building an Alien Language from Scratch with LangChain

How 100 AI agents evolved a shared symbolic vocabulary through trade — with no pre-programmed definitions, no mock data, and no shortcuts. The Core Idea Most emergent...

Overview of Germanic Languages: Branches, Origins, and Examples

Germanic languages, like Afrikaans, English, and Swedish, all come from German, but not the German you're used to hearing today. Learn all their origins, branches, and shared trait...

Ancient DNA shared with Neanderthals may explain human language

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible. Researchers found that these DNA regions, which act like volum...

Testing the validity and adequacy of linguistic phylogenetic analyses

by Benedict King Bayesian phylogenetics has become a standard tool in historical linguistics, and for the most part implements models borrowed from evolutionary biology. Not enoug...

Separating logic and language

Neuroscientists find logical reasoning does not involve language-processing parts of the brain.

Low-resource Languages

3 NLTK Tricks for Advanced Text Preprocessing & Linguistic Analysis

In this article, we will walk through three essential NLTK tricks to elevate your text preprocessing: preserving phrase integrity with the MWETokenizer, context-aware lemmatization...

3 NLTK Tricks for Advanced Text Preprocessing & Linguistic Analysis

In this article, we will walk through three essential NLTK tricks to elevate your text preprocessing: preserving phrase integrity with the MWETokenizer, context-aware lemmatization...

How Does One Brain Speak Two Languages?

A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at once.

The Latin of Linux

One reason people study Latin is that it is the ancestor of many modern languages. English derives from West Germanic languages, not from Latin, but much of English vocabulary, per...

How Does One Brain Speak Two Languages?

Speak a language your whole life and its grammatical rules become ingrained. That’s why you might correctly guess that the present participle of the verb “absquatulate” is “absquat...